The legend of the Crimson Demon clan started from Suqing.

Chapter 393 Addition and Subtraction

"You mean, your name was eaten by gluttony?"

"Ah."

"You mean, his name was eaten when he knew the Archbishop of Sin was coming?"

"……Um."

"You mean, with the help of Betty, Ricardo, Otto, and everyone in the mercenary group, the name was eaten?"

"…………Um."

The more he spoke, the more Julius became silent.

hiss----

Zun Zun no longer knows how to comment.

Julius was not good at making excuses, but he could still guess that the three Gluttons must have appeared at the same time and caught everyone off guard.

He also didn't expect that because of his selfishness, he didn't tell everyone this information, which led to Reinhard's house being robbed when he came back empty-handed.

This is undoubtedly a chain reaction.

It is true that Zun Zun did not explain all the information, but even if he has 99% of the problems, does that mean Julius and the others are not wrong?

No, no, no, that's not what I meant.

The key point is, with so many people, can't even three mere bishops of Gluttony stop them?
Where is the complete victory?

Good man, if you forget, you should just pretend you don’t know, right?

“Wait a minute, that means… you don’t know him—you don’t know Julius!?”

Natsuki Subaru looked around at everyone in the council room and found that they all had confused expressions on their faces, and it was obvious that they had no impression of the name "Julius".

"Reinhard!"

"——I'm sorry. I don't have any impression of this person. Although judging from his appearance, I think he is one of the contributors to this battle."

Julius' cheeks stiffened at these words.

As the strongest swordsman in the kingdom, the top swordsman who could cut off even the Witch Cult, even Reinhardt could not escape the influence of the power of Gluttony, or... if it was Reinhardt - it was just this unfounded wish.

That wish was ruthlessly broken, leaving only a superficial sense of reality about oneself.

Not only him, but everyone present, including Emilia, Crusch, Priscilla, and Anastasia, had no impression of Julius, and even—

"that……"

Emilia saw Julius's sad expression and said carefully, "I have another question, do you mind?"

"What else?"

"The micro-elves that are hovering very close to you... no, they should be called quasi-elves. Those children are flying back and forth restlessly... did you know that?"

"Yes, I understand. After all, they are the buds that are always with me and are ready to bloom."

Julius looked even sadder.

In the eyes of high-level elf sorcerers Zun Zun and Emilia, his quasi-elves with six-color powers were flying back and forth, but these flower buds showed confusion and uneasiness about why they were here.

To some extent, the relationship between elves and elven warlocks is no different from that of family members, or even closer than that of family members.

After all, elves attach great importance to the spirit of contract, but now he is wandering around without any memory related to Julius, which must be a heavy blow to him.

"Doesn't that mean that only Zun Zun and I remember him...wait a minute, Zun Zun you...!"

"do not know."

“…I haven’t said anything yet.”

“I know this even if you don’t tell me. You and I have nothing in common. In fact, even if we find something in common, it will be too late. Anastasia and the others will no longer remember what happened with Julius.”

Zun Zun spoke decisively, as if he was stating the fact.

"I know...I know! But--"

Subaru Natsuki seemed to remember Rem who was still lying unconscious in bed. Compared with Julius who was just forgotten, the former's experience was even more heartbreaking.

"But I am still curious, why does your Excellency remember me?"

"How could I possibly forget the teacher who taught me the way to elf?"

"You are really cunning to answer a question with a question."

Obviously this answer did not satisfy Julius, but he also found that Zun Zun did not want to explain too much, so he stopped asking.

The answer is actually quite simple.

It is the body of God.

There is no explanation other than that.

When Rem was attacked, Zun Zun was still in this world, so it cannot be explained by not being in this world and not being affected. Now that Julius is experiencing the same thing, Zun Zun still remembers him, which confirms this point.

"Zun Zun, I want to ask you something, please answer me seriously."

“It’s rare to see you look so serious. So, Subaru, what do you want to ask?”

"Can you break Rem's coma...with the Dark Sword?"

Natsuki Subaru stared at Zun Zun with an eagerness to know the answer, and a helplessness that came from trying everything but still failing. She really wanted to respond to him, but——

"Unfortunately, no." He shook his head.

"You've got one thing wrong, Subaru. The Dark Sword is not a special skill that can break this state. In fact, it does subtraction."

"Subtraction...?"

"What does this mean, my Lord?"

Whether it was Natsuki Subaru, Julius, or even Reinhard, they were all interested in this sentence.

"Well... for example, Mimi was hurt by the God of Death's Divine Protection, which made her body unable to be healed by magic, right? And my Sword of Darkness reduced this effect. The same is true for the Archbishop of Greed. He attached his heart to his wives, and I reduced this effect."

"Well……"

Natsuki Subaru fell into deep thought, and after thinking hard, he nodded slightly.

“I feel like I understand a little bit.”

"Then, the Archbishop of Gluttony is different. They also do subtraction."

“…Is that so? I understand. The Archbishop of Gluttony took away Rem and Julius’ names and memories, and he also did subtraction, so there is no way to restore their abnormal state, right?”

"10 billion points for the correct answer!"

The praise from the master made everyone feel extremely depressed.

"And not only that. God's blood probably won't work either, because it can only break curses and negative effects. Also, the black dragon and the fly transformed by the Archbishop of Lust can't do anything either - the dragon blood has been completely integrated, and using it might kill them, so it's better not to try it lightly."

——God is not omnipotent.

Now everyone understood.

But it also means that no one can do anything about this abnormal situation.

Anastasia took the opportunity to say that there were a total of 36 unknown people like Julius. A small number of them were confirmed to be from Chilitaka's mercenary group, while most of them were confused and could not explain their origins.

Perhaps most of his memories and existence were devoured by gluttony.

Julius was a rare case, and although it was impossible to confirm how many people in the city were in the same situation, there might be other possibilities like the other nameless people who lost consciousness. This was undoubtedly a very serious situation.

Julius clenched his fists.

"In view of these problems, I have a proposal, okay?"

"Proposal, what do you mean?"

As the object of everyone's attention, Anastasia looked around and finally looked in the direction of Julius and Natsuki Subaru.

"The victims of this Witch Cult attack... the victims caused by the Archbishop of Lust and the nameless ones caused by Gluttony, both sides are difficult... No, it should be said that there is no way to find out the countermeasures from the Archbishop of Sin himself. Is the above conclusion correct?"

"Let's not talk about the Archbishop of Gluttony. The Archbishop of Lust is already dead. It's hard to ask a dead person to speak..."

"I don't mean to make the dead speak, but there is more than one way to elicit an answer. This is all I want to express."

"Other ways to get the answer?"

Natsuki Subaru didn't understand the meaning of Anastasia's words, so he asked back the same question.

At the same time, he was thinking about the Witch of Greed. He wanted to find out the method from someone other than the Archbishop of Sin himself. If there was such a method, the only thing he could think of was to make a deal with the Witch.

"So, what's going on? Please, just tell me straight out."

Emilia also asked.

Anastasia tapped her head with her fingers and said meaningfully, "Since we can't get any information from the bad-tempered Archbishop of Sin, why not ask someone else who might know the answer? There must be someone in this country who knows the answers."

"Could it be...!?"

Someone suddenly let out a sound after realizing the meaning of this sentence. However, unlike those who thought of it, many people did not understand the meaning of it.

“I can’t explain it clearly!” Firut, who hated the riddler the most, slammed the table and said angrily, “Stop keeping me in suspense and explain it clearly!”

"Sorry sorry."

Anastasia gave an apologetic look to the impatient crowd and said with a wry smile: “——Sage, Shaula.”

"what?"

"If it's the sage in the Predis Watchtower, if it's the one who knows everything in the world, it wouldn't be surprising if he knew the solution, right?"

Just like that, the true meaning of this proposal was revealed.

The Sage, one of the three heroes along with the Sword Master and the Dragon, was once a hero who saved the world. 400 years have passed, and he is still alive... probably.

"400 years...?"

"What's wrong, Zun Zun? You look so melancholy."

"No, I feel very complicated when I think about the fact that the Crimson Demon Clan only has a history of 400 years."

"Hello……!"

Anyway, the tower where the sage Shaula lived was called the Pleiades Watchtower, and in order to make sure they could go there, they had to cross the dangerous desert, so they started a heated discussion.

Of course, there is no Zun Zun among them.

His mission was to escort the captured Archbishop of Angry back to the capital with the injured Otto and Fram, along with Firut and Reinhard.

In other words, it's time to go home.

(End of this chapter)